In this Issue
Women to Watch
What’s So Good About Being Bad
Sex—and shock—sell for a new generation of angry youngwomen artists
Michelle Falkenstein
The 24-Hour-a-Day Artist
From sleeping to eating to bathing, bodily rituals are fodder for Janine Antoni’s labor-intensive works
Sarah Bayliss
A Forgotten Gender Bender
Surrealist photographer Claude Cahun’s dress-up self-portraits were ahead of their time
Leslie Camhi
The Battle Over Henry Moore
How the multi-million-dollar feud between the artist’s foundation and his daughter was finally resolved
Jane Burton
Prescription for Beauty
Drugs are design elements in Fred Tomaselli’s explosively psychedelic collages
Hilarie M. Sheets
A Search for Perfection
The Barbier-Muellers inherited one great collection and then matched it with another
Mary Krienke
Departments
Letters
Art Talk
Man Ray; Robert Redford; Laurie Simmons; Edouard Manet; Berthe Morisot; Vittore Carpaccio; Helena Rubinstein; Catherine the Great; Paula Cooper; Steven Holl
National News
Brooklyn The “Sensation” uproar New York Schiele painting seized; the Guggenheim tries to grow Los Angeles LACMA consolidates power Boston Not for sale; Fallout at MFA continues
International News
Rome Villa uncovered in Vatican garage Spotlight Peter-Klaus Schuster: “I Have No Weekend” Rome Hue and Cry Urbino Painting the town Berlin Foster’s fight
City Focus: Houston
Texas Talent: Houston is showcasing a host of emerging artists, along with Surrealism, Steinberg, and Old Masters
Megan Halverson
Art Market
New York Guaranteeing Picasso London Britain’s banner year
Looking at Art
A Flame Revealed: Looking closely at a weaving by Anni Albers, a friend of the dour artist glimpses for the first time the Mae West within
Nicholas Fox Weber
Living with Art
House of Spirits: Antoni Tàpies has assembled mystical art from across continents and civilizations in his Barcelona home
Justin Webster
Artful Traveler
“Quite the Eighth Wonder of the World”: In Leighton House, the artist built a London dwelling suitable for a Victorian gentleman
Sylvia Hochfield
Books
On Modern American Art by Robert Rosenblum, reviewed by Kay Larson; The Digital Evolution by A.D. Coleman, reviewed by Jeffrey Kastner; Facing the Artist by John Jonas Gruen, reviewed by Ann Landi; From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky by Matthew Spender, reviewed by Justin Spring
Perspective
Sick Stuff? An open letter to Mayor Giuliani
Milton Esterow
Reviews
Our far-flung critics assess exhibitions in New York; Washington, D.C.; West Hollywood; San Francisco; Chicago; Boston; Baltimore; Seattle; Santa Fe; London; Madrid; Paris; Berlin; Zurich; Mexico City